Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15
VALIJE OF GLOVER.

There is no other crop raised on the farm
that has more valuable properties than
clover, both as q food and a fertilizer.
Glover is a great fertilizer of the soil, and
the thicker the stand the greater is the ben
eft to the land. A good seed bed is de-
manded to obtain the best result. A rich
soil, rich naturally, or made so by manure,
ensures a good catch if the seed is put out
in early spring on winter grain it may be
narrowed in with a light harrow this will
benefit the wheat also. But be sure that
the ground is not too moist.
OF course, much depends on the season ;
if this is favorable the growth will beluX-
uriant and the roots will fill the soil, add
ing greatly to the fertility of the land.
After Indian corn, there is no forage
crop t compare with red clover, and, if
we take into consideration its effect on
land, it should be placed at the head of the
list; for, while Indian corn requires very
rich land and ample manuring, clover is
the most fertilizing crop that is grown,
and may justly be called the poor mans
manure.
Glover is a very strong, tap-rooted plant,
striking its feeders deep into the earth,
and finding nutriment where the more
delicate roots of cereal plants would be I'M
able to 60. The proportion which the
roots bear to the top is large, and on the
removal of the crop these are to be left to
decompose and add their valuable quail
ties to the soil. Not only does the soil, in
this way, receive a large amount of fertil-
izing matter taken from the atmosphere,
or developed in the sub-soil, but the very
mechanical structure Of the root causes a
fertile channel to be left, reaching into the
u,o coil md aocilx, bro 1,orcn1 la, tbn rnrfS
of succeeding plants, while the carbona-
composition of the clover root, increases
the porosity of the soil and adds very
much to its ability to retain moisture.
Lands that have been exhausted by long
continued cropping, without manure, if
they can be made to produce even a small
crop of clover, may be, by its persistent
growth, rapidly and cheaply restored to the
highest degree of fertility.-Ow Country
Home.
CURING PEAVINE HAY.-A correspen-
dent of the Southern Planter gives the fol-
lowing method of curing vines. 1t strikes
US as q good one, and as the difficulty of
curing the vines deters many from raising
them, the plan is given now to encourage
new efforts in this direction. There is no
better forage, nor one more easily raised at
the South than peavines. Any promising
method Of curing them merits attention :
"When about twO-thirds of the peas had
ripened enough for table use (one-half is
better I cut them and let them lay on the
ground just long enough for the vines to
fall. / then throw them up in cocks from
five to six feet high, raised five or six inch
es off the ground by stands made in this
way Laydown two logs a tleast five inch
es thick and five feet long, then across these
lay four stakes five feet long, and in the
middle of this frame,drive firmly into the
ground one of the stakes sharpened at one
end, to keep the cock from being blown
over. TO keep the hay from settling down
too closely, and thus getting heated, the
cock should be built at least twelve OF
eighteen inches higher than the stob. Put
up in this way it will turn water splendid
ly. Mine stood three hard rains. Here
the hay must stay until thoroughly cured,
when it may be put away into any build
ing with safety"
Hs- TO preserve goods from moths do not
use camphor in any form. Pieces of tai
paper laid in fur boxes and in closets are d
better protection. Five cents will buy
enough to equip all the packing boxes and
closets of a large house for a year.
s~ When there is a rat hole through plas'
tering, or between the stones of the cellar
wall, the most effectual way to stop it is to
fill it with plaster of Paris mixed with
broken glass. Holes in wood are StOpDed